NELLY FURTADO (with Bianca Gracie)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Entertainment journalist Bianca Gracie joins DJ Louie to discuss 2000s quirky Canadian singer-songwriter turned unlikely dance pop diva, Nelly Furtado. First, Louie and Bianca lay out the ecosystem of alternative female pop stars in the late 90s and early 00s before turning to Nelly’s emergence, first on Toronto’s alternative hip hop scene and later as the earnest, genre-melding breakout star of her Grammy-winning debut album, 2000’s Whoa, Nelly!. After breaking down what made that record and it’s lead single, “I’m Like a Bird”, play like canny counter-programming to the early aughts teen pop boom and her prescient appearance on the remix of Missy Elliott’s 2001 hit “Get Ur Freak On”, Louie and Bianca ponder what made Nelly’s follow-up, 2003’s Folklore, a failure with both critics and fans, how she effectively rebooted her career in 2006 with an assist from Missy-collaborator Timbaland on her 2006 record, Loose, the sexist, rockist discourse of the mid 2000s around the idea of “selling out”, Nelly’s less commercially fruitful but perhaps creatively intriguing records of the 2010s and what they’d like to see her do next. Finally, Louie and Bianca rank Nelly Furtado in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite |
| 0:15.4 | pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:19.0 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:29.5 | So glad everybody's back for another go-around here with me and a guest and some Popstar chatter. |
| 0:36.9 | As always, I shall make my episodic plea to please rate, subscribe, and review Pop Pantheon on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This is one of the best ways to get |
| 0:39.5 | the podcast in front of more people. Also, you know what? If you have the time or the impetus to do |
| 0:44.4 | so, please share the show on social media. Spread the word. I'd really appreciate any help |
| 0:49.2 | getting this out there in front of people that might like to hear episodes about pop stars and |
| 0:53.9 | all of the stuff |
| 0:54.9 | that we enjoy getting into on this podcast. So thank you to everyone that's been doing that. |
| 0:59.2 | Also, social media, DJ, L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on both Twitter and Instagram, |
| 1:04.1 | pop pantheon pod on Instagram. Follow us there and follow the Pop Pantheon Pod, |
| 1:08.4 | Instagram because we now have this amazing graphic |
| 1:11.1 | illustrated by the incredible Juan Pilar who does all the beautiful graphics for all the episodes |
| 1:15.5 | of the show. It is a diagram of all the Pop Pantheon tiers and where every artist we've talked |
| 1:21.1 | about in the past 25 or so episodes has been ranked in the Pop Pantheon. So if you need a refresher, |
| 1:26.1 | if you forget where certain pop stars have ended up, we now have this graphic. It's on the Pop Pantheon pod Instagram. So yet another good reason to go follow that over there. Please join the Discord chat tonight. Thursday, February 3rd at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific. The links will be in the show notes of the episode as well as on all the social media channels. I just listed, yeah, yet another reason to go follow it. And if you have |
| 1:48.8 | questions about past episodes, about this episode, things you want me to talk about, I suggest you |
| 1:55.0 | send them to me at Poppantheon pod at gmail.com. I'm going to start to produce minisodes more often. |
| 2:03.1 | So I would love to have a couple mailbag episodes in the mix with those. So send your questions and I'll talk about them on |
| 2:07.6 | air, possibly by myself, possibly with guests. We'll see. We'll see how it all goes. So with all |
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